A look at the Latino experience in the American South using data from Richmond, Virginia.

Advocating a global as opposed to a Eurocentric perspective in the college classroom, discusses why and how to teach about China's Silk Road.

A survey of current critical perspectives on how North American indigenous peoples are viewed and represented transnationally.

Explores a range of Buddhist perspectives in a distinctly American context.

Explores the ways that immigrant youth identities are shaped by dominant discourses.

A startling reading of the educational enterprise through a psychoanalytic lens.

Examines the importance of fetishism in nineteenth-century cultural theory.

Materially grounded analysis of contemporary film, literature, and music in Hong Kong that resists the superficial stereotypes of the “global city. ”

Personal accounts celebrating the place of exercise in women’s lives—and as the site of women’s community.

Philosophers and social theorists of color examine how racism can creep into defensive forms of nationalism.

Provides multiple and accessible perspectives on trauma both as a condition and as a cultural phenomenon.

Examines the enormous popular appeal of vampires from early Greek and Slavic folklore to present-day popular culture.

Provocative take on the negative effects of increasing queer visibility and assimilation on the lives of queer people and politics in the U. S.

A comprehensive cultural and historical portrait of Italian American identities in Boston’s North End.

Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies.

Explores the relationship between disciplinarity and contemporary ethics of scholarship about the Holocaust.

Demonstrates the many devastating and interrelated threats that punitive policies like “zero tolerance” pose to youth, schooling, and democracy.

Encourages a deep reading of a selection of essential Spanish films.

A provocative retelling of the story of political corruption in the modern period.

Engages critically with historical and contemporary representations of the medicalized human body.

Pinpoints the limits of many current globalization theories in challenging racial oppression, and argues instead for local and situated strategies for resisting racism and imperialism.

Scholars engage the ideas and legacy of Cary Nelson in conversations about the corporate university, teaching, poetry, and activism.

Provocative exploration of a new concept of “joy” within psychoanalytic and cultural studies.

Traces the rhetorical work of the gene in scientific and nonscientific discourse throughout the twentieth century.

Essays explore the broad cultural impact of Oprah’s Book Club.